elfin
Example Sentences
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With her bleach-blond punk haircut, puckish grin and bright elfin eyes, she could have come to the company’s heavily guarded San Francisco headquarters straight from a Berlin rave, via an old forest road in Middle-earth.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026
Soon I was navigating the reading nooks and chef’s kitchens of an elfin cottage, a gothic coastal A-frame, a cozy “loch house” in the Scottish Highlands.
From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2024
Smiling his little elfin smile, he sometimes looks no older than that 11-year-old boy who had the world taken from him.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 20, 2023
"Chalamet is elfin and puckish, unworldly and possessed of a Paddingtonian innocence and charm - and a nice singing voice - without being insufferable," he wrote.
From BBC • Dec. 5, 2023
It had a familiar look to it—there was the same elfin chin as Cassiopeia, the poetic mouth of Beowulf.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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